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Bite-Size Business for Actors
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Bite-Size Business, brought to you by The Actors' Enterprise, features articles on the business side of being an actor: auditioning, marketing, PR, organization, finances & social issues, etc. We also answer questions from actors daily. Get a nibble, satisfy your career's hunger!
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Reels on DVD - A Thing of the Past?

For at least a decade, actors have been accustomed to collecting their on-camera footage, hiring a good editor, and then pressing ungodly amounts of DVDs in anticipation of sending them out to indust...

24 may 12

Duplicate Names on IMDB

IMDB has long been the “it” database for all things film and television. Many actors consider it a right of passage to have their name added to the database, with the hope that their credits will bur...

24 may 12

How To Get Started As An Actor

I coach 15-20 actors a week, and those that are new to the business often approach me with the same question, “I’m passionate about getting started, but I don’t have the money to pursue things fully....

24 may 12

Resume: How To List Credits

In both large and small markets, actors are wooed by all kinds of different mediums: theater, film, television, commercials, industrials, etc. Since each audition normally relates to just one of thes...

24 may 12

Tax Service Recommendation

Recommended Reading: The Artists Guide to Grantwriting Finding Money: Financial Aid for Actors & Artists Negotiating Hollywood: The Cultural Politics of Actors Labor A reader just asked me a ques...

09 feb 12

Leave Em Wanting More

Photo by Rob Ireton Ah... single life in NYC. Strangely (or sadly) it’s a lot like you see on “Sex and the City” -- except without the huge apartments and amazing shoes. Being single in the city mean...

19 nov 11

Mailing Rate Change

Photo credit: Unidentified Appelation Just wanted to give you all a quick update about mailings -- the post office has changed their rates again. According to the USPS website, here are the curr...

29 oct 11

Recommendations: Thanks to My Team

One of the fun things about working with actors is being able to promote some of my favorite people/services to them, thereby helping those who have helped me over the course of my career. So, in hon...

02 sep 11

The "Excuse Cocoon"

Tweet * I have a friend in California who is a producer of a festival where new plays are given lively readings by a troupe of actors. Several times per year, she solicits submissions from local play...

28 aug 11

Getting Real

Recommended Reading: Artists Prosperity Home Study System How To Win Friends and Influence People Outliers I was on Twitter today (much like every day) and was thinking about what piece of advice I w...

28 aug 11

8 Ways Get More Blog Readers

Tweet * Recommended Reading: Blogging All-In-One for Dummies The Its Girls Guide to Blogging with Moxie Essays in the Art of Writing If a blogger falls in a forest, and there’s no one around to see i...

29 jul 11

8 Ways to Promote Your Facebook Page

Tweet * Recommended Reading: Facebook Marketing Idiots Guide to Facebook Facebook for Business One of my most popular and widely read blog posts has been on Why Actors Should Have a Professional Face...

14 jul 11

Contests and Taxes

Tweet * I know a lot of actors who apply for contests and drawings, often to make up for the things they can’t afford while they pour money into their careers. You hear a lot about lottery winners an...

24 jun 11

ActorCast... and other submission sites

Tweet * Photo Credit Hey, everyone. One of my New York students asked me about my opinion of ActorCast, a division of Cast It Systems. It seems that there is a lot of misinformation flying around abo...

02 jun 11

Advice to New Actors

Tweet * I absolutely love it when I meet actors from all over the world who tell me how much they appreciate my advice and feedback for actors, and the wealth of information that I direct them to onl...

10 may 11

How to Get Background Work on Soaps

Tweet * One of my loyal readers writes: Hi, Erin! I love reading your blog, I need advice: Im interested in doing soap opera background work in NYC. Im non-union, but I would join AFTRA. How do I go ...

09 mar 11

Ask Me Questions via Formspring

Tweet * Hey, everyone! I have hundreds of readers for this blog, many of whom I credit with giving me ideas of things to talk about. So, I thought I would make it even easier for you to pose your que...

14 jan 11

Spending Your Money Wisely

Tweet * I was recently visiting a printer where I was getting reprints of my current headshot. I stood in line behind two women who were talking about the high price of being an actor in the city. Th...

12 jan 11

Market Your Career (Tip #11): Promoting Your Website

Tweet * Matt just left this comment on another one of my blog posts, and I thought I would answer with a new blog: "How would you suggest politely ask people to visit your site, and do you think ...

31 dec 10

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